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If you spend your days inside Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) transactions like I do, you will know the story by heart. Good businesses try to do the right thing by becoming sound empowerment partners. Then the deal stalls on one thing: money that is either too expensive, too risky or simply unavailable.

The Employment Equity Amendment Act (EEAA) 2025 marks a major step in South Africa’s effort to speed up workplace transformation and address persistent inequalities. A key change is the redefinition of a designated employer. Previously determined by both staff numbers and turnover, it now applies only to organisations with 50 or more employees, reducing the burden on small businesses.

The work environment of today looks very different to that of a few years ago, with the office-bound approach of the pre-COVID-19 era having given way to a more flexible, hybrid approach. Workers today mix autonomy with teamwork as they travel between home and business. While this offers flexibility and access to larger talent pools, it disrupts one of HR's fundamental procedures – performance management.

As South Africa prepares to move from level 4 lockdown so more and more companies will be allowed to re-open. As part of this, there are a broad range of legal requirements that organisations now need to comply with. As of the 29th April 2020, government published a set of regulations specifically related to how companies should be managing COVID-19.